A 17-year-old Pakistani girl forced to marry a 45-year-old when she was only nine was reportedly killed by her parents, according to the Weekend Australian.

The murder has intensified despair among human rights workers in Pakistan over a recent spate of "honor killings," in which two women and three teenage school girls were buried alive in Baluchistan Province because they wanted to marry the men of their choice.

Saira Nusrat Bibi was successfully fighting a legal battle to have her marriage annulled. As she left court in the Punjabi city of Sahiwal, she was surrounded by a group of men reportedly sent by her parents, and shot in front of police, The Australian reported.

The Baluchistan case was worsened by an attempt by a member of the country's national parliament, Senator Israr Ullah Zehri, to defend it, telling colleagues that "these are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them,” The Australian reports.

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Radio Free Dar al Harb is husband to a 9-11 survivor, son to a Khobar Towers survivor, and a determined patriot.
This marks my humble entry into this front of the war. 1400 years of Islamist expansion has won land, loot, and slaves, yet this does nothing to slate their thirst for divinely sanctioned global submission to Islam. Unable to continue via conventional forces, Islamists seek submission through alternative means, principal among them is multi-media, especially the internet. Seeking to convince us to collapse upon ourselves, they are wielding an unrelenting barrage of propaganda, lawsuits, and intimidation. To date, they have succeeded. Radio Free Dar al Harb, is my humble attempt at resisting this juggernaut. I know there are others of you out there, and it is my hope to lighten the load a little and provide useful information and a some situational awareness to better enable you in your struggles to defend this grand experiment in Freedom.